Thanks Trev, I've been running on guesswork for longtime anyway. The 'Vaguelia' on my Guzzi stopped about 12 years ago on a trip to Melbourne, but even when it did work was living up to it's name-just have to take an average!!!
It really was just the cable, but the needle jumped ship anyway and I finally had it reno'd last year, but didn't last long, but at least the odo works.
Am always looking out for the boys, making sure they're not up to 'no-good', 'specially after doing a year on 1 point!! a bit distracting tho'
Also now I think from what I read before about speedo specs., is part of the numbers/letters denotes trip/meter- side or bottom??
cheers ,duTch
ps, the face of mine looks exactly like that one of Kiwipoms'